tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post819702204004089074..comments2015-07-27T09:05:39.523-07:00Comments on Geeking with Greg: Matt Cutts interview on personalized searchGreg Lindennoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-30015064216359821812007-03-05T11:55:00.000-08:002007-03-05T11:55:00.000-08:00I apologize for being a first commenter too often,...I apologize for being a first commenter too often, Greg.<BR/><BR/>But let me just chime in (yet again) about how wary I am off all this. In fact, Cutts' example of football in the US vs the UK is extremely appropriate here. I spent a year in the UK, from 2004-2005, doing a postdoc in London. And I found myself doing searches on Google and getting results that I really did not want. Though I was in the UK at the time, my sojourn was temporary, and most of my focus was still on US information. <BR/><BR/>And I found that there was no way I could turn off this Google "personalization"! It was extremely annoying. It was worse than non-productive.. it was actually counter-productive. Google got my personalization "wrong", and I could not turn it off.<BR/><BR/>It was very unhelpful. And it was at that point that I found myself wanting more control over my search experience than automated "personalization" mechanisms were allowing me.jeremynoreply@blogger.com